Mihir Bhaskar
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Mihir Bhaskar
IonQ, Senior Vice-President R&D
About the Speaker
Dr. Mihir Bhaskar has over a decade of experience in quantum technologies. In 2020, he led the first ever demonstration of quantum networking rate enhancements using diamond color-center quantum memory technology he pioneered during his PhD at Harvard. Before joining IonQ, where he currently serves as Senior Vice-President R&D, he was CEO and Co-Founder at Lightsynq Technologies, a startup commercializing memory-enhanced quantum interconnects, acquired by IonQ in 2025. Prior to Lightsynq, he launched and served as research lead at the Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Networking from 2021-2024.
